THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. (TETRA or the Company) (NYSE:TTI) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved, and the Company has entered into, an amendment to the Company's stockholders' rights plan that accelerates the expiration date of the preferred stock purchase rights from November 6, 2018 to March 13, 2013. Accordingly, as of 5:00 p.m., Houston, Texas time on March 13, 2013, the rights issued pursuant to the stockholders' rights plan will expire and will no longer be outstanding, and the stockholders' rights plan will terminate as of that time.

Stuart M. Brightman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TETRA, commented, "In light of the general disfavor of 'poison pill' plans by institutional investors and stockholder groups, our Board of Directors has determined that the termination of the rights plan will demonstrate our goal of maintaining sound corporate governance policies and procedures throughout our Company."

TETRA is a geographically diversified oil and gas services company focused on completion fluids and associated products and services, water management, after-frac flow back, production well testing, offshore rig cooling, compression based production enhancement, and selected offshore services, including well plugging and abandonment, decommissioning, and diving.

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